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12-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • break a leg! — good luck!
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • bridge table — a square card table with folding legs.
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
  • cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
  • cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
  • cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
  • carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • caster angle — the forward or backward tilt of the steering axis in a vehicle, when considered from the side
  • catalog code — the principles, rules, and regulations for entering and describing books or other library material in a catalog.
  • categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • cattle egret — a small, white egret (Bubulcus ibis), an Old World bird that has expanded its range to North and South America: it often feeds on insects attracted to cattle and other grazing animals
  • cattle guard — A cattle guard is the same as a cattle grid.
  • cell lineage — the developmental history of a tissue or part of an organism from particular cells in the fertilized egg or embryo through to their fully differentiated state
  • centralising — Present participle of centralise.
  • centralizing — Present participle of centralize.
  • chalcogenide — a binary compound consisting of a chalcogen and at least one other electropositive element
  • change color — to become pale
  • changelessly — In a changeless manner.
  • channelising — Present participle of channelise.
  • channelizing — Present participle of channelize.
  • char-grilled — Char-grilled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • charge plate — an identification plate, especially one from which an impression can be taken, issued to a customer and used to make purchases on a credit basis.
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
  • cheval glass — full-length mirror that can swivel
  • childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
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